Damien O'Mara
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And for all of the people that are very excited to see the World Cup arrive in Mexico in particular, there's an awful lot of people that are deeply dissatisfied with aspects of social care and, you know, like...
The nation's teachers were a big part of the protest.
They're looking for better standards, better conditions.
There's 134,000 people registered as disappeared or missing in Mexico.
Their families were part of this protest as well.
There is a significant financial investment for any of these countries that take on the hosting rights to these major sporting events.
And that comes with a level of...
of unease.
By going by accounts of people that were at the game, there was talk at one stage that there was going to be a one kilometre cordon around the ground that would restrict the movements of people.
By all accounts, even looking at the social media of some colleagues from the BBC who were over there covering it, they reckoned they walked somewhere between six to eight kilometres to get to the ground because the areas were shut down.
There was violence, there were attacks on police.
I don't want to say this is part and parcel of these major tournaments, but this is part of the dissatisfaction that comes with these governments, these nations deciding to get into bed with FIFA and deciding to invest in the infrastructure that's required around a major tournament like a World Cup.
Now, David, don't be bitter.
I did say bittersweet.
Yeah, Czechia, who obviously ended our ambitions of going to the World Cup, took the lead against South Korea.
South Korea came from behind to win that 2-1.
So Czechia face a battle already to advance to the knockout stages.
I thought it was actually a really interesting game.
Obviously, it took place at three o'clock in the morning.
I'm not sure how many people stayed up to watch it late.